Product Description

For beginners and climbers on a budget, the Five Ten Coyote Laceup Rock Climbing Shoe is an excellent choice. These comfortable shoes have an unlined leather upper and Stealth Rubber Soles for unparalleled friction on the rock. The Coyote Laceup will keep your feet comfy all day long while providing good performance for all types of climbing so you can kick off your rock climbing career. *Shoes will stretch about a half size.

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don't start people off in discomfort, allow them to grow into a more technical shoe. I love this for a first shoe, better than the old La Sportiva Cliff in my opinion. Have started several folks off in these, used to be Cliff believer, just think this is a little more form fitted and technical without going too far. Backcountry.com has them on sale, December, 2007.

I purchased there shoes after my Mad Rock Phoenix's were cramping my feet...
My toes had to jam into these 5.10's and there was quite a bit of room behind my heel
I would recommend not purchasing these...even for a beginner!

""You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.""
--Rene Daumal